Health System Specialist
What you'd do
The position is at the full performance level located in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (VAGLAHS) in the Director's Office and will report directly to the Associate Director, Operations.
Major duties
Under the Associate Director, Operations guidance, the incumbent is responsible for supporting the development of action plans, completion and closure of deficiencies, construction safety rounds, being the COR, and project management for all the services reporting to the AD, Operations. The West Los Angeles campus is a 388-acre campus with a tertiary 191 bed hospital, 200 bed Domiciliary, and 207 Community Living Center beds, as well as outpatient services across multiple buildings on the campus. The campus also has temporary and permanent housing on campus for Veterans. The Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center (SACC) located 17 miles north of West Los Angeles, on a 144-acre campus, provides 30 Community Living Center beds. Outpatient services include primary care, homeless care, mental health, some specialty care, geriatric evaluation and management, and palliative care. The Downtown Los Angeles Ambulatory Care Center (LAACC), located 15 miles east of the West Los Angeles campus, also provides primary care, homeless care, mental health, and some specialty care. The system of ambulatory care centers and outpatient clinics handle over 680,000 outpatient visits annually. Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday-Friday, 7:30 am - 4:00 pm Compressed/Flexible: Not authorized Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD13291A
What you need to qualify
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/27/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT (IOR): An IOR is a basic requirement that must be met in order to qualify for entry into this job series, and it is something that can be waived. The education must be accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained. To qualify for the GS 0671 occupational series, applicants MUST possess one of the following: UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE EDUCATION: undergraduate or graduate education in a major field of study hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields, such as business or public administration, with course work in health care administration. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: specialized experience that is progressively responsible for analytical or administrative, or clinical management, or supervisory experience in the health care field performed in an operating health care facility or a higher organizational echelon with advisory or directional authority over such facilities with close working relationships with facility managers and analysis/coordination of administrative, clinical, or other service activities which provided knowledge in the following areas: 1) Missions, organizations, programs, and requirements of health care delivery systems; 2) Regulations and standards of various regulatory and credentialing groups; and 3) Government-wide, agency, and facility systems and requirements in various administrative areas such as budget, personnel, and procurement. SPECIAL PROVISION FOR INSERVICE PLACEMENT: Completion of an agency-sponsored on-the-job training program, which included a formal individualized training plan. The training program should have been performed in an operating health care system and included: 1) Assignments providing a knowledge of basic health system administration philosophies, practices, and procedures, and basic government administrative policies and requirements; 2) Practical assignments providing an opportunity to apply health system administration skills and principles (as the individual progresses, work assignments must be characteristic of the grade level to which he or she is assigned); and 3) Oversight by an experienced health system administrator with periodic evaluation of the individual's progress and appropriate adjustment of the training program. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: progressively responsible analytical or administrative, or clinical management or supervisory experience in the health care field. This work may have been performed in an operating health care facility or a higher organizational echelon with advisory or directional authority over such facilities. Work must have involved a close working relationship with facility managers and analysis and/or coordination of administrative, clinical, or other service activities, and provided knowledge of the following: supporting the development of action plans, completion and closure of deficiencies, construction safety rounds, being the COR, and project management for all the services reporting to the AD, Operations. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have successfully completed a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., in hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration. NOTE: Transcripts required OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond a master's or equivalent graduate level in hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration. and specialized experience to meet total experience requirements. Only education in excess of 2 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education may be used to qualify. NOTE: Transcript required. NOTE: Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment their resume. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.
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